Methodist Dallas Medical Center

When civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson in November announced he’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he joined a long list of famous people — and thousands of other Americans — who live with the neurological condition.

Cancer of the pancreas – an organ that lies behind the lower part of your stomach - accounts for only two percent of cancers diagnosed in the U.S. each year. But it’s the fifth-leading cause of cancer deaths in this country.

In this installment of KERA’s Vital Signs, we revisit the subject of stroke. A study last month in the Lancet pointed to an increase in stroke among younger adults. Dr. Ben Newman, an endovascular neurosurgeon at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, talked with Sam Baker about who’s affected and why.